for quality improvement methods to be used to evaluate public health policies, provided data can be drawn continuously from different sources. Regardless, for the time being, NPIs are the only tool in the armamentarium for controlling COVID-19, and this report inJAMAserves to quantify important ...
In this commentary/short communication we summarize many recent developments related to public health strategies for COVID-19. At this time, there are a wide range of emerging themes post various lockdown measures that have been reported, such as increased exercise, increased ...
The situation was similar in Senegal where vaccination campaigns halted because of thepublic health measures—including school closures—put in place to slow down the spread of COVID-19. This measures, Ousseynou Badiane, the coordinator of the Expanded Vaccination Program in Cameroon, resulted in a...
Before the COVID-19 outbreak, the idea that surfaces played a significant role in transmission was controversial, said Reynolds, who studies the transmission of germs from a variety of routes, such as food, water, air or person-to-person contact. Now, Reynolds is optimistic that the lessons ...
"Reduced public health measures were insufficient to reduce the scale of this wave. And now we're dealing with the consequence: a rise in infections is driving a surge in deaths," Etienne said at a press briefing on Wednesday. New COVID-19 infections across the Americas region fell by 31...
'Public Policies, “One Health,” and Global Inequalities Under the COVID-19 Lens' published in 'Reduced Inequalities'
COVID-19political trustpolicy stringencyWhile degraded trust and cohesion within a country are often shown to have large socioeconomic impacts, they can also have dramatic consequences when complianceBargain, OlivierAminjonov, UlugbekSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Mathematical models have played a key role in assessing the effectiveness of public health policies and NPIs to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2, as well as to evaluate the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 and how it is impacted by the movement of people2,7,16,17,18,19,20. However, ...
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), when applied in packages that combine a number of measures with complementary effects, were unequivocally effective in reducing the spread of infections during the COVID-19 pandemic, a major Royal Society report h
has been tracking the COVID-19 pandemic in India since March 2020. The Michigan team collaborated with investigators from Harvard, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Boston Children's Hospital to take a closer look at the effect of public health interventions that were roll...